The Radical: 责


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Meaning
responsibility    责

Explanation

Used in these Kanji:
JLPT HSK 3
merit, accomplishment

Left: thread 纟/, right: responsibility (... for growing plants and money /貝)
Threads have the responsibility (i.e. in woven form) to provide a merit.

Vocabulary
JLPT HSK 4
responsibility, duty, to reproach, to blame

Top: growing plant /, below: shell/money /貝 (= cone-shell with two feelers as shell-money)
Growing plants and money mean responsibility.

Vocabulary
JLPT HSK 6
debt, liability, obligation
zhài
Left: person , right: responsibility (Growing plants and money /貝 mean responsibilities.)
A person bears the responsibility for his: debt.

Vocabulary
JLPT no HSK
to click one's tongue (in wonder or astonish)

Left: mouth , right: responsibility (Growing plants and money /貝 mean a responsibility.)
The mouth with phonetic pronounciation 'zé' as used at: 'responsibility' stands for tongue-snapping.

Vocabulary
JLPT no HSK
to soak, penetrate, to be stained, floodwater

Left: water , right: responsibility (Growing plants and money /貝 mean responsibility)
Water has the responsibility (= property) that it can soak.

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